Endowment Drive Totals $200,000 for College Growth
Report notes $200000 raised to date in the college endowment drive. Enrollment rose by at least fifty percent since last year, spurring expansion of facilities. Six new dormitories or labs were added, with a summer building program planned, including a field and lake improvements. Public appeals urge donations through the college office to Mrs. D. H. McCoy.
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Lake Tech
Colee Eee
Win¢ College
Great Plans Made For Revival Drive
Athens Alabama prepares a four week revival starting Sunday June 24 with evangelist Wade H House. A 7000 seat tent will be pitched on Crutcher lot near the public square and a local Boy Scouts troupe will help manage crowds with ushers from town churches.
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Athens
Ala
Wade H. House
Chautauqua Opens To Athens Residents
The Redpath Chautauqua opened its tent in Athens Alabama for a week near the public square. Local business leaders organized the show and all profits will go to the Athens Public Library.
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Athens
Als
Redpath Chautauqua
Volunteer Mills Payroll Pays Workers With Silver Dollars
The Athens plant of the Volunteer Knitting Mill in Chattanooga paid employees with silver dollars this week. Banks and bus houses in Athens were flooded with the coins as the payroll was distributed, reflecting the mill’s financial impact.
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Athens
Ala
Volunteer Knitting Mill
Chattanooga
Gins Eye Athens Area Expansion Plans
In Limestone County June 156 two gin operators eye Athens for this fall. Charlie Jones, who runs a large gin at Stewart's Cross Roads, weighs an Athens branch. Paul Gish of the Athens Plant also considers establishing a gin there.
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Ala
Athens
Charlie Jones
Stewart's
Cross Roads
Paul Gish
Athade
Kiwanis Observes Zero Hour Across Clubs
Kiwanis clubs in the United States and Canada set a common Zero Hour next Monday at 10 15 PM local time. More than 100000 Kiwanians will observe the hour at their own locations, aligning with Kiwanis International meeting in Seattle Washington. T M Dix and Milton Andrews represent the local club.
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Kiwanis
United 1St Canada
Kiwanis International
Seattle
Washington
T. M. Dix
Milton Andrews
Mercury Rebounds With 81 66 Day High Low
The weather report notes a 24 hour period ending at 7 am with a maximum of 81 and a minimum of 66 degrees. Local observers report the mercury rising after a morning drop.
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Posetlg Sine Bureau
WCTU Holds Regular Meeting at Mrs Rose’s Home
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold its regular meeting this evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. J. Rose. Attendance of all members was urged.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
J. J. Rose
Union
Pilot Club to Hear Two Speakers at Meeting
The Pilot Club will hold a regular semi monthly meeting Monday evening at the YMCA. Two speakers, Mrs. W. B. Edmundson and Miss Kate Frazier, are scheduled though topics are not announced. All members are urged to attend.
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Pilot Club
W. B. Edmundson
Kate Frazier
Jokes and Gags From a Distant Daily Page
A patchwork of quips about marriage, nurses and doctors, overheard lines, and cartoons. A patient mocks a doctor after a druggist advice, a talkative sheik quips about outfits, secretaries, and scandal, while jokes on love, safety, and manners punctuate the page. The column ends with a jab at a great man who lies and now graces portage stamps.
King Tunney Lectures at Yale Inspires Mixed Reactions
The heavyweight champion Gene Tunney visited Yale University to lecture undergraduates on Shakespeare. The event drew fans and sparked controversy as Tunney’s discussion shifted from boxing to literature and social commentary, ending with a notable departure and public reaction captured in a photo.
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Gene Tunney
Yale
John L
Corbett and Kett
Demps Sey Eneng
Oscar Wilde Oltaire
Alice
Second St paving moves to council for final plan
Decatur city council last night began steps toward paving Second Street from the Louisville and Nashville railroad to the Danville road. The action aims to complete the second main thoroughfare project as part of ongoing street improvements.
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Decatur
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Danville Road
Purification Health Ad Promises Vitality From Calotabs
An old medical advertisement touts Calotabs as a system purifier. It urges a thorough purification course, claiming chronic ailments fade as nature rewards health, and offers a family package with directions for 85 cents at drug stores.
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Nature
City plans street improvements through western Decatur
City council ordered a survey of a western Decatur thoroughfare between Wilson avenue and Davis street for proposed improvements. Property owners will have a chance to object later, with the engineer to file a survey by the next aldermen’s meeting.
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Wilson Avenue
Davis Street
Decatur
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